The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-12

mouths Of most of the corpees could be seen
foam which showed that they died in agony. At
last we secured some feeble lights. but the WIND
blew them out. and about o'clock the rain poured
down in torrents on the unprotected dead ana
dying in the hedges and corn-helds adjacent.
Our efforts were divided between trying to put
out the fire and rescuing the dying whose cries
for help were heartrending indeed Mothers
wildly about crying for lost children ana
over the forms of their beloved wives. Prayers.
groans and entreaties filled the air
until daylight, when relief parties got TO WORK ana
removed the dead and wounded from the scene
The scene in the cars was beyond description.
One young child was found fastened near the
roof of the car head down, where, in the jar and
concussion, il had been thrown. and was dead
when taken down. Others were found in all
conceive BILE shapes, all thrown out OF their seats,
piled in the ends aisles OF the cars, bleeding
from gashes in the face. arms or other portions
OF the body"
Remarkable ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Death.
CHICAGO, Aug. FIT was simply horrible"
said Mr.. E. A. Vauzant. Of Peoria, to . reporter
for the Times. ''No words of mine can describe
the awfulness of the I was on the rear
sleeper and so was in danger, as no one in
the six sleepers was more than shaken up But
even there we got bad shock felt three dis
tinct bum bs, and then rushed out of the car and
ran forward to the wreck. There the scene was
horrible, horrible! The only light was the flames
of the burning bridge, and above it the day
coaches were piled top Of one another in
heterogeneous mass. The engine was buried in
the ditch, and the headless body of the engin-
eer, Eugene McClintock, was underneath it.
From all sides came groans and cries for aid, SO
we went to work, and we had to work hard too.
If the wreck had caught fire, 300 people would
have been burned to death, and the only thing
could do was to smother the fire with dirt
1t was hard and slow work. and took US four
hours to do it, but we did it, and when
the fire was out other help came and we
got the dead and wounded OUT and
during the morning carried them over to Chats
worth where we took what care of them we
could. There incident in the affair
which was not only remarkable In its way, but
shows how terribly those six coaches were
damned and mashed together When the &C.
cdent occurred. Andy Mooney of Peoria, and
conductor Still we'll. who was in charge of the train
were three cars from each other Mooney was
in the second and Still we'll in the fifth. The
next instant they found themselves literally in
each others arms, the in which the conduc-
tor was riding having been carried over the two
in front and dropped on top Of the one which
Mooney was in. The strange part of it was
neither man was hurt
1.-THE most horrible death of all was that of
Eugene McClintock, engineer of the second en-
CINE of the dou bile header. The first engine.
which engineer Sutherland was driving, passed
the burning bridge in safety, but it was
under its weight that the half-consumed bridge
gave way. and the tender dropped back into the
dry slough. Sunderland's engine kept the rails
and ran on in safety. such was the awful speed
of the unfortunate train. McClintock's engine
plunged down into the hole. and as the tender
mounted on top of the cab it took McClintock
in the back of the neck and cut his head clean
off his shoulders. The trunk was found under
the engine. but the head could not be dlscov-
cred, and the presumption IS that it was ground
to atoms between the horrible millstones of the
engine and the tender"